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By Phoebe MacAdams

Poetry. THE LARGE ECONOMY OF THE BEAUTIFUL is a book of poems by Phoebe MacAdams, including selections from her work from the last 30 years, as well as new work. Joanne Kyger has called her work "sorrowful, careful, graceful and romantic."

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By Harry E Northup

Poetry. EAST HOLLYWOOD: MEMORIAL TO REASON is a long poem-memoir. The reader walks with Harry through the streets of East Hollywood as he shares his life with us in language that is joyful, sorrowful and rigorous."Harry's poems present American life...

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By James Cushing

Poetry. "An unrepentant surrealist, James Cushing chisels his wizardry into a tool for tuning in, like a set of special specs... Imagine a voice with two kinds of eyes—one trained on the 'normal'; the other alert to the equally real, yet weirder, wo...

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By Holly Prado

Poetry. These poems offer a personal world informed by prehistory but also by moment to moment contemporary life. Prado's work has been called by critic Robert Peters "both passionate and visionary." The book is the 21st published by Cahuenga Press,...

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By Phoebe MacAdams

Poetry. TOUCHING STONE charts MacAdams's journey as she deals with the deaths of three family members, along the way finding mystery and the numinous presence of stone. She says in her introduction that "[f]rom the stillness of stone come words, com...

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By Harry E Northup

Poetry. "Harry Northup's new series of poetic meditations is cast in an incantatory mold. The voice of a human coyote railing against the wondrous savage world it inhabits, in order to embrace it before final extinction. This world, although eponymo...

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By James Cushing

Poetry. "To read PINOCCHIO'S REVOLUTION is to be afloat in a sea of signs and wonders. Cushing infuses his shifting, surreal vision with undercurrents of deep feeling"--Amy Gerstler. "The singer arrives 'with two hands and one guitar,' an encycloped...

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By Holly Prado

Poetry. FROM ONE TO THE NEXT is Holly Prado's tenth book. The writing is gathered into three sections. The first two carry distilled, succinct poems focusing on a complete lunar cycle and its events; on mother loss and redemption of that loss. The t...

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By Phoebe MacAdams

Poetry. This book is an acceptance and celebration of life in the city of Los Angeles, a difficult, hard to navigate and sometimes unlovely place, which has, nevertheless, provided a creative force in the life of the author that is constant and that...

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By Harry E Northup

Poetry. "In these poems you will not find a trace of cant, bombast, or hype; nor do they argue a position, aesthetic, philosophical or otherwise. They are as plain as the Plains that he was raised on. They record what he ate between Oct. 5, 2002, an...

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By James Cushing

Poetry. UNDERCURRENT BLUES is made up of both a sequel to his previous work, You and the Night and the Music, as well as a series of newer works written from 1997-2002. "Cushing's work proves that once can be a part of the insular atmosphere of the ...

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By Holly Prado

Poetry. A stunning retrospective of Prado's lengthy, productive creative life,THESE MIRROS PROVE IT includes selections from all her major works, aswell as material too long scattered in now out of print magazines. Shewrites with a lyricism inspired...

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By Phoebe MacAdams

Poetry. LIVELIHOOD explores the experience of teaching in a large inner city high school in Los Angeles. These poems chronicle the stories of students and classes, faculty meetings, and the tragedies that occur in the course of a school year, as wel...

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By Harry E Northup

Poetry. "It makes sense that one of the best poets ever to come out of Los Angeles would be a fine character actor like Harry Northup. Northup is the poet laureate of east Hollywood—of streets like Normandie and Mariposa and Fountain. His poems are ...

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By Ann Stanford

Poetry. "DREAMING THE GARDEN completes an impressive body of work that earned its author a Shelley Memorial Award, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, two NEA grants and the admiration of fellow-masters such as May Swenson, James Dickey,...